The left has, predictably, turned on the NRA and blamed them for the mass murder in Las Vegas, throwing around words like “terrorist organization” that they never apply to organizations like CAIR or #Antifa that actually support terrorism. More specifically, they are using attacks on the NRA to raise funds from the naïve dupes that support leftist Democrat groups.
I’m thankful there is an NRA; the wealth and electoral clout of the NRA is the only reason the Republican Party didn’t knuckle under to Obama’s Gun Control agenda the way they knuckled under on everything else Obama wanted.
My thing is, I don’t trust the gun control groups who claim they only want to tighten restrictions a little bit, because they lie. They are lying about suppressors (claiming they will make guns silent and unpossible to detect.) They lie in their statistics about “children” being killed by guns by counting gang bangers in their late teens/early twenties as “children.” They lie when they claim you can easily and legally buy automatic weapons without a background check.
Since they lie about all this stuff, I can only assume they are lying about their agenda. I think they ultimately want to outlaw the private ownership of firearms; incrementally, or in one swoop if they get control of the Supreme Court. Besides which, we already have pretty strict background checks and other limits already in place. Besides which, we’ve already seen in New York, California, New Jersey, and DC the types of restrictions they really want to put in place; and we know those are just down-payment until they can get the Supreme Court and negate the Second Amendment. Some of them are open about their agenda, those ones, I believe because expressing their intent openly is not helpful to the cause.
And let’s be honest, the real reason the left hates the NRA is because the NRA helps get Republicans elected. It’s not about “saving lives,” it’s about saving Democrat senate and house seats.
If they’re looking for bad things to happen, this is the right way to go about it. And everything they’re doing says they want bad things to happen.
“Besides which, we’ve already seen in New York, California, New Jersey, and DC the types of restrictions they really want to put in place; and we know those are just down-payment until they can get the Supreme Court and negate the Second Amendment.”
Negating the 2nd Amendment or unilateral abrogation of the COTUS would mean civil war and the 2%er marxists do have the numbers. Regardless of the socioeconomic status of the leftist mass murderers, the majority population is not going to be cowed by less than 2% of the population when their numbers are known whether they affiliate as nazis/antifa.
@2 Correction.
the 2%er marxists do not have the numbers
I don’t own a gun, I don’t like guns, but I know the only thing between my neck and chuck schumer’s boot is all you americans with guns. thank you!
At some level, it’s the same bloody shirt waving they do after most mass murders committed with firearms (that do not involve gang violence), nothing new there. And certainly their ultimate goal is to make private ownership of firearms illegal, always has been. What feels different about it this time around is the level of hate and vitriol they are expressing. Not that even the hate is new, but it feels dangerously intense.
Every word of this post is perfect. Absolutely perfect.
Ann Coulter has noted that the one thing the NRA does well politically is to focus on their prime issue: gun rights. That’s why the NRA will endorse someone like Harry Reid – he votes the NRA line.
The one thing I want to hear from the gun control lobby is what, exactly, they want to do (they won’t admit to confiscation nor will they provide specifics).
Once again, the left fails to grasp that there are a lot of deplorable people that, while not paying dues to the NRA, still agree with the NRA agenda.
Bad people will get guns regardless of what the gov’t does to law-abiding subjects. Mexico has very strict gun control and no one can argue that Mexico doesn’t have a problem with “gun violence”. And once we figure out that guns don’t pull their own triggers (that phrase is a bit suspect), we will have to consider *who* is pulling the trigger and, the bastard in Vegas aside, Anglo men aren’t the problem.
They had to lie about this too.
@7: Looking at the UN website, the only motion I saw was a vote on some sort of report on the death penalty. The part pertaining to LGBT issues was a paragraph about half way in.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session36/Documents/A_HRC_36_26_EN.docx
Without reading the whole thing (not that interested), my bet is that the “no” vote is because the US retains capital punishment and there is language incompatible with US law and sovereignty.
So I’m not going to be hot and bothered by this. The LGBT reporting seems to leave out the pertinent details.
Yesterday: Trump is an evil fascist dictator.
Today: Trump’s government should have all of our guns.
Vince, I am unable to find record of your outrage at previous administrations votes against the measure. Or at Obama’s voting present? Can you point that out to me? Otherwise it seems a bit, well, self serving in an attempt to change the topic.
And right on cue is al-Cray-da, trying to hijack the thread. Again.
Regards,
Peter H.
Its the worst mass murder… Not involving planes, fire, bombs or scissors.
Some would say the Bear River Massacre of 1863 where the US Government slaughtered 250 Shoshone men, women, and children was a worse mass murder; but that was done by the Government, which makes it OK.